With the invention of the cotton gin in 1794, and the emergence of steam power three decades later, cotton became the common persons commodity, the product with which the United States could expand westward, producing and reproducing Thomas Jeffersons vision of an idyllic republic of small farmersa nation in control of its land, reaping the benefits of honest, free, and self-reliant work, a nation of families and farmers, expansion and settlement
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Even when the South nullified the protective tariff, Jackson advocated a compromise that strengthened the industries of the North while not abandoning the cotton-producing states
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